This essay deals with the theoretical issue of vulnerability as ontological paradigm of the human and reflects on its importance in understanding social and political phenomena occurred during the unprecedented experience of the COVID-19 Pandemic. It attempts at answering questions related to how we think and conceptualize bodily materiality, illness, loss. Moreover it asks: How can we account for our shared vulnerability in ways that do not recur to a martial language? How can we perform a new ethics of care, based on the experience of a shared vulnerability?
"The lungs that we all are". Rethinking linfe in the times of a pandemic
Guaraldo, Olivia
2022-01-01
Abstract
This essay deals with the theoretical issue of vulnerability as ontological paradigm of the human and reflects on its importance in understanding social and political phenomena occurred during the unprecedented experience of the COVID-19 Pandemic. It attempts at answering questions related to how we think and conceptualize bodily materiality, illness, loss. Moreover it asks: How can we account for our shared vulnerability in ways that do not recur to a martial language? How can we perform a new ethics of care, based on the experience of a shared vulnerability?
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